Today we walk back to rural Saskatchewan and the One Sheet Wonder in which our director Rodger threw his first curling stones. This photo includes his first real mentor – Paul Krahenbuhl – the big man about dead center in the photo behind all the awards. It looks like this was a good season for the Duff Curlers in the region.

Our Corporate business continues to grow and in May 2016 our Curling Academy leader Rodger Schmidt was the top presenter at the Annual Swiss World Cargo Forum held in Scoul, Switzerland.

Swiss World Cargo brought together their best managers from all corners of the World to the Swiss Alps to engage them in a continuing education seminar. Rodger took the participants through a mental training session focused on Teamwork and Performance.

After a respectable Bronze Medal Performance at the recent World Championship in Japan our Russian Women’s Team will be on the ice at the Players Championship in Toronto Canada April 7 – 12. All the top ranked teams in the Canada and the World be there and we look forward to a sensational event.

Sidorova, Fomina, Saitova and Galkina, with Coach Rodger Schmidt will be our Russian Team, come and watch us play live at the Old Maple Leaf Gardens, or tune in to the games on Sports Net, or the internet.

Our Academy Athletes – Ana Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Alexandra Saitova, and Ekaterina Galkina, under the watch and guidance of our Director Rodger Schmidt have struck again! They won 1st place honors in the Glasgow Glynhills International Tournament, defeating EJ Kim of Korea in a tight and tense Final on Sunday January 18th.

This team has been solid and consistent of late – finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd and now 1st in their last 4 International Events, going back to mid November. The Final game also was the teams 50th Competition Game win of the season.

The Curling Academy Rodger Schmidt GmbH is ready and eager to begin the New Year. January Events are plenty full and we look forward to helping our Athletes and aspiring curling enthusiasts to reach success in the second half of this 2014 – 2015 season.

Half way through the Round Robin portion of the European Championship has all going quite well for our Academy clients – RUSSIA. Our Women have put themselves in a favorable position by winning their first 5 matches, while the Men’s Team starts this day with a 3-2 record. The Athletes on both teams have performed well and rank at our near the top in Individual performance rankings, which hopefully is at least partly because of our Curling Academy methods and training over the last few seasons.

Our Russian Women’s Team (Coached by our Director Rodger Schmidt), coming off of 8 straight wins in last weekends Wetzikon WO International Tournament will begin play Saturday, November 22 1500 against Estonia. Watch for Mini Reports fueled by the Curling Academy as this event progresses.

The European Championship will run from November 22 – 29 in the mountain resort Village of Champery.

We are pleased to be able to report that one of our training students Sergio Vilela has qualified to be a member of the Brazilian National Curling Team. Sergio lives in Switzerland and trains at our Curling Academy facility in Kussnacht am Rigi with both Jean Pierre and Rodger.

Next step for Sergio and the Team Brazil is to prepare for the World Challenge against the USA. Winner of this Americas Challenge will qualify for the 2015 World Championship. Brazil has challenged in the past with no success, but this will be the first time for Sergio.